Article 2 Scope

which have been published by the Commission or by the Publications Office on its behalf through publications, websites or dissemination tools; or

which have not been published for economic or other practical reasons, such as studies, reports and other data.

to software or to documents covered by industrial property rights such as patents, trademarks, registered designs, logos and names;

to documents for which the Commission is not in a position to allow their reuse in view of intellectual property rights of third parties;

to documents which pursuant to the rules established in Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 are excluded from access or only made accessible to a party under specific rules governing privileged access;

to confidential data, as defined in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council^f1;

to documents resulting from ongoing research projects conducted by the staff of the Commission which are not published or available in a published database, and whose reuse would interfere with the validation of provisional research results or where reuse would constitute a reason to refuse registration of industrial property rights in the Commission’s favour.